"The fact of the matter is, I think people would have been happy to have a referendum on civil rights rather than fighting and dying in the streets in the South. It was our political institutions that were holding things back. I don’t think there’s anything necessarily so special about [gay marriage] that it must be handled by a legislature. Why would that be? I don’t understand how anybody could argue with letting the people decide this issue. Let’s stop hiding behind this ‘we don’t put civil rights on the ballot’ thing. Ya know, please. These folks would put anything on the ballot if they thought they could win."
— New Jersey Governor, Chris Christie, explaining his intention to veto any marriage equality bill that reaches his desk because of how he believes that the way that the broad population feels about a historically small, marginalized, oft discriminated against minority should dictate whether that minority receives fair treatment under the law. His assertion that people in Alabama would have voted to overturn all Jim Crow laws in the 1960s shows such a keen understanding of history and a tremendous acumen in sociology, I just wish he was my governor. (via sleeplessinsouthie)
Fat fuck.
